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PIGEONS AND DOVES 



ing that fills the place, and you will locate the sound here and 

 there along the sides of the canyon at dead tree-tops, in each 

 of which a solitary male is sunning himself, at intervals 



THE BAND-TAILED PIGEON. 



puffing out his breast and hooting. The hooting varies con- 

 siderably. Sometimes it is a calm whoo'-hoo-hoo, whoo'-hoo- 

 hoo, at others a spirited hoop-ah-whoo' , and again a two-syl- 

 labled whoo'-ugh, made up of a short, hard hoot and a long coo, 

 as if the breath was sharply expelled for the first note and 

 drawn in for the second." ("Handbook," p. 139.) 



